Let’s be clear, you cannot punish a player on the basis that he has made a comment which is only offensive, offence is subjective, highly so in Scottish football, where thousands await the opportunity.
Nor can you punish a player for a derogatory remark which may offend, especially if the remark does not call into question the probity of the subject. “Hearts are rotten, we beat them easily twice this season”, is a derogatory remark and will offend some Hearts fans, but it also falls into the category of being a fair opinion.
And without pointing out the obvious, you cannot offend the dead. John Guidetti and the club are right to contest this ridiculous charge, which by context, clearly refers to a team no longer with us.
I was absolutely astonished to read that newco (and former oldco) director, Paul Murray, explained Dave King’s absence from newco’s recent share as he is waiting until the SFA “have completed their review of Dave’s status before he can fully participate in the future of the Club”.
The SFA have no issue whatsoever in Dave King investing heavily in newco, or in owning all shares. Indeed, King is already the largest shareholder, which has attracted no attention from the football authorities.
The prospect of King sloping off if the SFA judge him not Fit and Proper (which I think they will), is a fabulous twist in the work of this legendary non-executive director of a dead club. He sat on the oldco board which paid EBTs for so many years, he stayed while they made no provision for the HMRC tax case, plunging into the transfer market instead. Now he awaits the whim of the SFA before deciding to invest, having led newco away from their primary source of funding.
What a star.
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Neganon2…what makes you think i support the OB..in fact i dont..i just pointed it out..aw i gotta say…i have never heard of Drum chapel…i had friends from Drumchapel
…just saying ….
Bsr,
It’s a tremendous record in such a short time.
He’s not a traditional midfielder in the style of most of those names but his goals last season pulled us out a hole or two.
HH
bournesouprecipe
18:36 on
24 March, 2015
Marrakesh
Absolutely. They are all in it together including SMSM who began to ramp things up from the moment the ink on the R.I.P Rangers pages was dry. We owe a debt of gratitude in the part they all played in hastening liquidation.
The realisation that Celtic didn’t have an ‘armageddon’ but thrived on the demise of Rangers is the bitterest pill they’ve had to swallow.
From strength to strength have gone Celtic, to the phoney semi final where ‘they’ were allowed by ‘this country’ to reintroduce songs banned by UEFA in 2005, whilst they hit a brick wall on the park, with their wee diddy team.
The SFA, SMSM, Sevco all huns all in a mess together with the zombie club continuing to flat line, the more the Celtic success, the more we hear from a compliance officer.
Here’s to more Mass Huddles CSC
brilliant post
KC’s wife on clyde
OMG BGX you are onto me, it was actually lower bearsden……
KC apparently a quick starter.
He’s gonna regret that revelation.
HH
lionroars67
He not going to be happy about the Cjyde thingie….oh dear it’s a no no.
Sounds like she is a nice lassie, she certainly loves being in Glasgow
I met Lisa at Oscar day.
She was brilliant on the radio there.
Her and kris are tums for life.
Tims for life.
Ffs
timjim
You listen to Clyde? Shocking.
She does sound a lovely Lady, if it’s ok to say that on here?
TDband what nonsense are Clyde spinning this time?
Tony its that or emmadale
Emmerdale I mean
Any clash and pogues fans out there. Sky arts one at 9pm tonight, a documentary about joe strummer and the pogues. Its foolowed by anarchy in mamchester with some good stuff from the late seventies.
At ten, an italian drama about political corruption called 1992.
The three previous italian dramas on sky arts, romanzo criminale, the series about toto riina plus the gommorrah, were excellent.
timjim
19:15 on 24 March, 2015
Tony its that or emmadale
Ah! Now I get it.
An tearmann
I hope you don’t mind but I want to being the link you posted to the attention of as many people as possible
It is an absolute disgrace that such a state of affairs exists in a supposedly civilised society.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/24/benefit-sanctions-trivial-breaches-and-administrative-errors?CMP=share_btn_tw#comment-49389964
I would also echo my support for your comments at 16:44
Consider a cyber pint bought for you m8
Well I’m off to watch a couple of movies, I’ll get back tomorrow and find that Celtic fans will have had leadership to take on the RST, aye right.
It was a dawdle ;-)
A wee ditty from yesteryear
He used to be a Hun but he’s alright now Alfie alfie Conn, alfie alfie conn……..
Feck this.
For three years we have had the collusion of the Scottish Establishment and Scottish media ripping up their own rule books, disappearing down a rabbit-hole into a world where down is up and up is down, for one purpose: to ensure the existence of a form of Hun FC.
This Guidetti insanity must be the final straw.
Thousands of huns sing songs of race and sectarian hate a month ago. Twice at least. Songs a court has already deemed illegal. And nothing happens.
A Hun board member sends a Moslem woman an obscene cartoon of the prophet Muhammad with the clear intention to intimidate, bully and belittle her. And nothing happens.
Campbell Ogilvie – “deeply compromised” though he is by his own admission – is not facing criminal charges but continues to iron the aprons.
Hun Football Club operated an apartheid signing policy for 100 years – and nothing happens.
Several hundred Hun fans are pictured giving Nazi salutes in Israel – and nothing happens.
Hun manager Walter Smith is interviewed 15 years ago. He said: “There is an air of Protestant superiority about the place.”
Instead of being cauterised by Scotland’s press for living in the Dark Ages, this is greeted with smiles and nods. All’s well with the world. And nothing happens.
“I was told not to bless myself when I ran on to the pitch.”
John Guidetti repeats a terrace song containing the words “The huns are deid”, and is arraigned by the SFA.
1. “Hun” is not sectarian. Easily proven.
2. The huns ARE deid. Easily proven.
Time to draw a line, IMO.
I am sick of 3 years of seeing swaggering, bullying huns reinvent themselves as victims, and I am even sicker of watching a corrupt football governing body and Scottish state help them do it.
This idiocy about Guidetti strikes me as a very good ‘in’. A can opener, as it were.
Let’s see the worms.
dallas dallas where the heck is dallas
Thanks for the Pogues / Joe Strummer reminder .
HH
Have not seen this movie but my brother in law sent me the song/clip.
Seasonal allergies made my eyes water when I watched it. :o)
“Rudderless” is the movie and sometimes how we feel I suppose.
HH Blondie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9vhSa5KVOo
Captain Beefheart
17:51 on
24 March, 2015
Is Scotland strongly anti Irish? Nope. Apart from a bunch of primitives, nobody gives a damn. My experience.
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Captain,
I’ve never met a man who lives up a Munro,maybe that limits your experiences.
:)
Roy Croppie
Happy birthday mhate ,and happy birthday to your lovely daughter Lucy .
HH all the best the Croppie family.
A pity allofem huns.
Greeninbingley
great post !
Thats Clyde off
BSR circa 17:42
10/10 Top form.
marrakesh express
Order something Italian!
:-)
Coat on!
HH!!
marrakesh express
18:43 on 24 March, 2015
La Lanterna
Recommend the Tuscan Sausage risotto.
The cheesecake is fabulous.
Scotland – zombie infested cesspit
TALLYBHOY
Chocolate fireguard!
You still stuck in Italy,gonna miss the curry night on Thursday?
Dallas Dallas.
Thanks for the heads up.
Will tune in.
Marakesh
Chateaubriand in la lanterna is superb
BMCUW
Afraid si.
…so, even!
Not coming over ’til Sunday.
Ragin so a um!
Have informed PF.
HH!!
Read that RST crap again cos something in it was bothering me.
This bit…..
“Celtic are fostering a culture of racism and sectarianism”
The club should sue the bollix off them for that IMO, I would imagine it’s the recently departed racist, bigoted hun director who penned the artical.
HH